Isolation question

[ComradeP]

One more note is that in FWWC you cannot use ferrying in a storm (not sure if that change was rolled over to PzC as well) so it does beg the question if they could also provide supply in a storm, I am guessing not?

ComradeP didn't this situation occur in a recent FWWC game you played?

One of Elxaime's stacks ended up on the wrong side of a river when a storm hit in the Serbia '14 4th Invasion game I wrote an AAR for.

I reloaded a turn where the stack was in that position and it was not Isolated.

Isolation will make the A quality unit automatically drop to B. One of the things I don't like about PzC sometimes is the cumulative effect of modifiers. If a unit starts off at moderate to low quality a few bad things happening to it (isolation/low ammo/disruption) and its junk.....

Cumulative bonuses/penalties applied in sequence have a tremendous effect on gameplay. I'm not particularly fond of the extreme effects it can cause, but the system works reasonably well most of the time.

Interesting situation though. Bridge was blown with a rearguard left on the other side? I guess the aim was to prevent the Germans closing up to the Engineers and Disrupting them before they could blow the bridge. 

Possibly. It could also have been coincidence that the two Soviet units ended up in that location. They couldn't use the medium bridge due to being hard targets so they were stuck on the other side of the river.

I thought the problem was caused by using non locking ZOC rules and changing the parameters to allow units to move through ZOC. However I've realised that whilst units can move easier through enemy ZOC, supply tracing is still blocked by ZOC. So the units would still be Isolated.

To add to that: retreat paths are also still "blocked" by an enemy ZOC even when movement through a ZOC is possible. I was curious whether that was the case and recently tested it in Herbstnebel.